2025-08-18¶
OpenSearch and OpenTelemetry¶
In Diving deep into distributed microservices with OpenSearch and OpenTelemetrys my colleagues Shenoy Pratik Gurudatt and Adam Tackett demonstrate new features introduced in the Trace Analytics plugin in OpenSearch v3.1.
Fluent Bit & OpenTelemetry¶
The good folks from the Parseable Team published Observability Agent Profiling: Fluent Bit vs OpenTelemetry Collector Performance Analysis, a really useful reference providing perf insights on these two popular telemetry agents. Thanks for sharing and KUTGW!
GenAI monitoring¶
Claude Code + OpenTelemetry + Grafana: A guide to tracking usage and limits by Rafał Strzaliński is a nice hands-on contrib on GenAI monitoring.
Tracing GenAI apps is not enough¶
The one and only Krisztian Fekete wrote another article, this time on the topic of Tracing GenAI Applications Is Not Enough.
Honeycomb and GenAI¶
Via TNS: Honeycomb’s Concept for AI Observability: Integrate Cursor With Your MCP by B. Cameron Gain explains how this feature can help in AI-assisted debugging workflows.
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